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Kittens & Kangaroos. The callers who flock to Grandma Moses' upper New York State farm at Eagle Bridge (there were 500 of them last summer) might seem a chore to someone else, but Grandma loves having them. She also enjoys showing off the snapshots they sometimes leave with her. "Now this," she will remark, "was a very nice family from Ohio . . . This poor girl lost her kitty just before she came .. . This was a woman all the way from Australia. She brought me a kangaroo skin and a hula skirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Grandma's Imaginings | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

Winston Churchill, to whom admiring South Australian livestock men had sent a pair of white kangaroos, finally got around to the London Zoo in Regent's Park. But when he got there the pen was half-bare. The she-kangaroo had thrown herself against a fence and died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Roses All the Way | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Akutagawa's kappa are a race of Oriental leprechauns, seldom over three feet tall, with short, ugly faces and webbed hands and feet. Like chameleons, they can change the color of their skins at will. Other kappa marks are large beaks and kangaroo pouches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Gulliver in a Kimono | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...ELEPHANT AND THE KANGAROO (254 pp.)-T. H. White- Putnam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irish Ark | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...only one criticism of the Advocate's poetry: T. S. Eliot always seems to be lurking somewhere between the lines. The two non-fictional articles are examples of just what the magazine should keep doing. They are unique, not available to the national magazines. The long account of Kangaroo Island, by Stanley Geist, describes this Pacific Lichfield calmly and contemplatively. Luckily, he avoided merely giving the reader a sadistic thrill, and instead analyzes the sociological reasons for the brutality, though sometimes as the price of being dull...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Shelf | 4/30/1947 | See Source »

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